Designblok announces Competition Diploma Selection

EUNIC cluster CR - Eunic Designblok, Prague Design and Fashion Week announces the second annual competition for the best European theses in the field of product design, fashion design. Participating countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Italy, Lithuania, Hungary, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain. The contest is open to all graduates with master degree of European academies or universities from the participating countries who graduate in the field of product design or fashion in 2015. The theses will be evaluated by the curatorial board of Designblok (Jana Zielinski, director of Designblok, Jiří Macek, creative director of Designblok; Tulga Beyerle, director of the Dresden Museum of Applied Arts, Agnieszka Jacobson, Program Director of the School of Form, Poznańa). All finalists to be invited to do their work center.

Last year the winner of the fashion category was Dutch fashion designer Bastien Visch, category of product design mastered Marianne Huissoud.

Product designers will be provided with an exhibition space within Designblok Openstudio (main exhibition space Designblok with the attendance of 30 000 visitors) in a joint exhibition called Diploma Selection. The exhibition organizers will prepare a unified architecture lighting. Fashion designers have the opportunity to present their work at a fashion show as a part of the block Diploma Selection. The winner will be decided by an international jury, consisting of personalities of leading European galleries, cultural institutions and media. You will find more information in the seciton For exhibitors.